. >> zhou yongkang was in charge of domestic security until he retired in 2012. was last seen in public a year ago. in july, the party said it was investigating him. zhou is accused of accepting bribes and leaking state secrets. he is the most senior figure to be brought down in president xi jinping's drive against corruption. foreign ministers from around 50 osce countries attended a two-day meeting in basel, switzerland. the ongoing conflict in ukraine was high on the agenda. >> the russian foreign minister slams the west for blaming russia for the crisis in eastern ukraine. tensions in the region remain high, despite thursday's agreement on a cease-fire, which is due to begin next week. >> our correspondent has been covering the osce for more than a decade. we asked him if it was true that the conference and basil did not provide any breakthrough between the west and russia. >> there was no consensus among members of state street. 57 of them to issue a joint declaration on crane -- ukraine, which they wanted to do. that is not stop to speaker from criticizing

hong kong media have reported that ling asked zhou yongkang then a member of the standing committee to help cover up a story. he wanted to hide news that his son had died after crashing a popular sports car. zhou was expelled from the party earlier this month. president xi jinping has been waging a campaign that reached the upper echelons of chinese politics. >>> the massive landslide in indonesia earlier this month has forced 2,000 people to live in temporary shelters. the national disaster agency has ended its search for the missing after getting the consent of their families. still, the heavy, intermittent rains are continuing. racing fears of another mudslide. the mudslide hit a mountainous area of the banjarnegara district in central java on december 12th. the mud buried more than 100 homes. the agency says that 95 people died, 13 others remain missing. the agency pledged to support the survivors and said that relocating the evacuees will be a major challenge. it estimates that around half of indonesia's 250 million people live in areas prone to landslides. the landslides usually

zhou yongkang was also expelled from the ruling communist party. made him the highest ranking figure to be prosecuted so far in president xi jinping's corruption crackdown. zhou had been a key rival to xi. back in this country, congress has voted to block suspected nazi war criminals from getting social security benefits. the senate approved the bill last night, and sent it to the president. that followed an associated press investigation that found dozens of nazi suspects collected millions of dollars in benefits since 1979, under a legal loophole. nasa took a big first step today toward a potential mission to mars. it was the first, unmanned test flight for the orion capsule, and it went off without a hitch. the spacecraft blasted off atop a delta-four rocket just after dawn, from cape canaveral, and it reached a peak altitude of 3,600 miles. about four-and-a-half hours later, orion made a bulls-eye splashdown, 630 miles southwest of san diego. >> it's hard to have a better day than today, it was a lot of fun, very exciting, each part of the miss